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Press release: The Carphone Warehouse has today confirmed delivery of a large quantity of the Apple iPhone 3G. The handset will be available in more than 800 stores across the UK, with stock expected to arrive by 14:00hrs on Thursday 24 July. This will be the largest delivery of the iPhone 3G since stores sold [more]
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Some writers get rather upset if sub-editors change their copy, as this sweary rant from Giles Coren demonstrates: When you’re winding up a piece of prose, metre is crucial. Can’t you hear? Can’t you hear that it is wrong? It’s not fucking rocket science. It’s fucking pre-GCSE scansion. Then again, Roland White has a different [more]
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Here’s one for the 3G owners: does your iPhone sound different to your old iPhone when you’re playing music? I’m using the same headphones, same EQ settings and same music, but the 3G sounds less bassy than the first-gen iPhone: it’s hard to explain, but the best way I can describe it is that the [more]
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Well, sort of. The video for House of Cards uses a whizzy data visualisation technique, whatever that means, and techy types can download the data from Google Code and fiddle with it. Here’s the video. Or you could just zoom around a 3D model of Thom Yorke’s head. [Via Metafilter] [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
